Top 10 Holy Grails of Classic Microcomputer Collecting

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Oct 7 09:57:22 1998

< >How do you know it was paper tape... MITS basic that was "pirated" was
< >often supplied on MITS ACR format audio tape. Still have one!
<
< At the time, were ASR-33s or cassettes the more common media for exchang

Yes!

ASR33 was expensive so many people used terminals or VDM1/parallel port
keyboard or other combinations.

Also ASR33 was 10 cps and ACR was 300baud... considering the 4k basic was
a 8-9 minute load on the tty and about 3 on the ACR it should be obvious
tape was a better way to go.

Allison
Received on Wed Oct 07 1998 - 09:57:22 BST

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